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Transformations: Gender, Reproduction, and Contemporary Society

Transformations: Gender, Reproduction, and Contemporary Society. Lecture 8: Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can parenting ‘be’ what parenting ‘is’? Dr Sherah Wells Sherah.Wells@warwick.ac.uk. What is parenting?. Gap between ideal and actuality ‘Types’ of parents: Lone Married Step Lesbian

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Transformations: Gender, Reproduction, and Contemporary Society

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  1. Transformations: Gender, Reproduction, and Contemporary Society Lecture 8: Beyond the Nuclear Family: Can parenting ‘be’ what parenting ‘is’? DrSherah Wells Sherah.Wells@warwick.ac.uk

  2. What is parenting? • Gap between ideal and actuality • ‘Types’ of parents: • Lone • Married • Step • Lesbian • Resident • Absent • Co-habiting • Gay

  3. Lone Motherhood

  4. Lone Motherhood Routes “Problems” Separation, Divorce, Widowhood (outcome) Choice Donor Sperm Adoption/fostering Moral: engender criminality in boys Economic: drain to the welfare state

  5. Jon Davies

  6. Bock • Choice due to circumstances, not a critique of nuclear family • Discourses to claim a right to motherhood • Age valuable • Responsible job equals responsible mother • Emotionally mature • Economic means to support a child

  7. Campion, critiquing grounds for unfit parenting • Psychiatrically ill • Against nature • Need mother and father to develop gender identities • Confusion about sexuality • Stigma and victimization • See things they shouldn’t see • Risk of abuse

  8. Tasker, Fiona (2005) ‘Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children: A Review’, Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 224-240 ‘Findings from research suggest that children with lesbian or gay parents are comparable with children with heterosexual parents on key psychosocial developmental outcomes. In many ways, children of lesbian or gay parents have similar experiences of family life compared with children in heterosexual families’ (Tasker, 2005, p. 224).

  9. Resources • http://www.stonewall.org.uk/at_home/parenting/default.asp • http://www.prideangel.com/p4/about-us.aspx • http://www.donor-conception-network.org/index.htm • http://www.newfamilysocial.co.uk/

  10. Conclusions

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